Women, Infants and Children

Below are responses to surveys conducted by the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board as part of our endorsement process for the February 2019 races for Chicago's clerk and Chicago's treasurer. We asked candidates to tell us about themselves, list their qualifications for office and respond to policy questions. Their answers are in their own...

WAUKEGAN - Twice As Nice Mother & Child and area businesses are teaming up to fight diaper need in Lake County through the "Deck the Halls with Diapers" campaign.
Twice As Nice is a nonprofit organization that has distributed more than 334,000...

Within days of arriving in Chicago from Honduras, the 12-year-old boy sat in Dr. Sue Haverkamp’s office, getting a physical.
Haverkamp learned the boy had a history of chest pain and heart palpitations. She told his mother that she’d refer him to a...

Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation, the 501(c)(3) charitable arm of Delta Dental of Illinois, announced its 2018 Community Grants Program recipients. The Foundation awarded more than $180,000 to 21 nonprofit and community organizations with programs...

Are you a parent or guardian of children ages 3 to 5, looking for affordable childcare and interested in preparing your children for kindergarten?
The Children's Learning Center at the College of Lake County's Lakeshore (Waukegan) Campus will provide...

No action against Russia
There was a time when the Republicans would crucify you if you had anything to do with the Russians. It seems like our president has everything to do with Russia. Say whatever you want to, cut me up, but I don’t care. The only...

Halfway through Mattina Davenport's first trimester, she named her daughter Maliyah Rose. Maliyah — like Obama's Malia — and Rose, a bringer of beauty.
It was 2015, and though Davenport wanted Maliyah, she hadn't yet meant to get pregnant. A graduate...

On Saturday morning, Ludy Arnold arrived at the H Street farmers market in Northeast Washington just minutes after it opened. Arnold is 70 and lives in nearby public housing for seniors. She comes every week, and has for the past four years, to buy fruit,...

GURNEE - If a parent must choose between paying for rent, food or diapers, the baby likely spends more time in soiled swaddling, or simply goes without.
And since even subsidized child care centers won't take children without an adequate supply of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is weighing dramatic changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, the $73 billion social safety net that feeds 42 million Americans, according to a conservative group that met with...

To illustrate how mixed my mind is on Cook County’s new sweetened-beverage tax, here are 10 observations in search of a conclusion:
1. Sugary drinks aren’t good for you. They have virtually no nutritional value and are loaded with empty calories, and...

Grocery stores can't tax SNAP purchases. That makes total sense.
SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, informally known as food stamps — is funded with public money, so the government would simply be taxing itself.
This simple rule has...

Mrs. G. came to our offices distraught: Her primary care doctor had just diagnosed her with diabetes, and she was shocked. She had always been overweight and had relatives with diabetes, but she believed she lived a healthy lifestyle. One habit she...

Published in Chicago Tribune on April 27, 2017 — Print headline: "Step away from the juice! It's not healthy for you or the kids. - Surprise, surprise! - The culprit"

On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government's spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending.
To pay...

Love it or leave it
To those who feel that our duly elected president is not their president: Remember, this is a free country and you are free to leave at any time. If you choose to stay, then give the man a chance. He is trying to put in place policies...

Lake and Porter county food deserts stand to benefit from a bill to fund construction and expansion of grocery stores, food pantries, farmers markets as well as delivery, distribution and educational outreach.
The Healthy Food Financing legislation...

Mead Johnson Nutrition, the Glenview-based maker of Enfamil infant formula, might be acquired by the British firm Reckitt Benckiser for about $16.7 billion.Reckitt Benckiser issued a statement overnight saying it was in advanced negotiations to acquire...

It's a Tuesday morning at Rowe Elementary, a charter school on the city's North Side, and in Ms. Voigts' third-grade class, the students are wide-eyed, clinging to the edges of their desks to still themselves. Each kid steps to the front and gets a...